| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 55 min |
| Prep: | 10 min |
| Cook: | 45 min |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 large onion, halved and sliced
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt, optional
- 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
- 3 pounds boneless chicken (thighs or breasts), diced
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh hot red chili peppers
- 4 stalks lemongrass, green tops removed then pale ends finely chopped*
- 2 tablespoons curry powder
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 4 tablespoons fish sauce
- 4 ounces unsweetened coconut milk
- Shaved fresh coconut, for garnish, optional
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add the half the onion and all the garlic and cook, stirring frequently, until both begin to soften, about 7 minutes. Add the salt (if using), black pepper, sugar, chopped ginger and chicken. Cook over medium-high heat until the sugar melts and the onion mixture and chicken begin to brown, about 15 minutes.
- Add the remaining onion, the chili peppers, lemon grass, curry powder, soy sauce, fish sauce and coconut milk. Stir, reduce the heat to medium-low, cover, and cook until the chicken is no longer pink at the center, about 10 minutes. Remove the lid and simmer (adjusting the heat if necessary) until the sauce thickens and the chicken is tender, about 10 minutes more.
- Serve warm garnished with coconut shavings if desired. This dish tastes even better the next day!
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 4 servings |
| Calories | 937 |
| Total Fat | 69 g |
| Saturated Fat | 25 g |
| Carbohydrates | 18 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Sugar | 6 g |
| Protein | 60 g |
| Cholesterol | 349 mg |
| Sodium | 2358 mg |
Reviews
The powdered curry flavor tastes like a poor copy of what real curry tastes like. I reiterate what others have said about the salt, DO NOT ADD IT! Taste it once the chicken is cooked and adjust as needed.
Making this again tonight without the salt! Absolutely, do not add the salt. I just mechanically made it the first time not thinking that 1 TBS is a lot of salt and it has soy sauce in it too. But I saved it by adding more coconut milk and rice so it was edible but not as good as it could have been. I love lemon grass and coconut. Find an asian market with the real lemon grass – better than dried flakes , I think. Also, lemon grass is available at specialty stores but they rip you off. I saw $2.50 for one small package with barely one half a stalk in it. Asian markets sell usually $2.00 for two full stalks. But if you absolutely cannot find the real thing then I would still try it.
Okay so I haven’t made this yet but I’m going to use maybe 3tablespoons fish sauce and 1 tablespoon soy sauce and no salt. But I’m curious as to whether the author meant canned thick coconut milk or just fully liquid coconut milk?
I tweaked the recipe as follows:
8 large chicken thighs cut in bite size strips, no fish sauce, only 1 teaspoon of salt, 2 table spoons of soy sauce, a whole can of coconut milk. It turned out delicious.
Toooooooo much SALT but could be delicious
Even without the 1 tbsp of salt, this recipe is so salty my family refused to eat it. Maybe just use the fish sauce, OR just use the soy sauce, but definitely not both!
I wish I had read the reviews before making this. The dish was so salty it was inedible. The salt measurement has to be incorrect. Absolutely horrible dish.
This was good but like others commented, too salty.In addition to using the entire can of coconut millk we added about 2 more tablespoons of butter and about a tablespoon of brown sugar at the end.
I used whole bone-in chicken thighs and grilled them instead. Pureed everything else (omitted salt and chili pepper) plus some cilantro in a food processor and marinated the chicken pieces for half a day. Grilled on a BBQ and it was delicious. Make sure to use the canned coconut milk and NOT the refrigerated ones like cartons of milk. I used Chaokoh brand. There is so much flavor, you can even use half of the soy sauce and fish sauce if concerned with high level of sodium.
Loved it. Very simple and flavorful. Followed recipe and it turned out so good.